I am a writer, and AI can already write better than I can. If I ask Gemini or ChatGPT, “Tell me about blah, blah, blah,” the answer that comes back in about 30 seconds is better than what I can achieve in half a day — if ever.
I mean, human writers will no doubt dwindle drastically in number, but the best will survive (which I ain’t). The same will go for most professions except doctors, lawyers, and techies. Even those occupations may dwindle with the encroachment of artificial intelligence.
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For instance, my thoracic specialist wants to gas me out and use a “robotic arm” to explore my chest and take out a mysterious one-centimenter something or other showing up on CT scans. Eventually, couldn’t a robot do the whole operation by itself, as scary as that sounds?
Perhaps that physician-surgeon robot will require a human supervisor, but an operating roomf full of ten specialists will probably vanish.
What I’m getting at is that it’s unlikely that AI will take over service trades. I can’t imagine a robot being trained to come to your house and repair your plumbing, fix your dishwasher, or tear our a wall and put in a sauna, though anything is possible.
For those of you currently in high school, you may still want to to go college to have fun and chase the opposite sex. iI you’re not pursuing medicine, law or technology while in college, however, when you graduate, you may want to consider a trade career.
The trades pay well too. I remember the phone guy who used to come to our office and fix some problem or other. He made probably 40 percent more than I did, and he never went to college.
Just a thought, folks. Blue collar rocks.